“We will have the conversation when it arrives. Ireland is very comfortable with same-sex anything.”

Eilish O’Carroll, best known for playing Mrs Brown’s neighbour, came out as a lesbian at the age of 50.

Married twice with grown-up children, she previously spoke of how she discovered she was gay at 40 but waited ten years to come out. Eilish said: “I fell in love with a woman and my life changed completely.”

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